"Virgil has two personalities, its 'good' side – a typical young galaxy quietly forming stars. But Virgil transforms into the host of a heavily obscured supermassive black hole, pouring out immense ...

This Sunday, 21st December 2025, people across Ireland and around the world will have the rare opportunity to witness one of the country’s most extraordinary natural and historical events — the Winter ...

I/ATLAS is pulsing after every 15.48 hours, which a science writer claims aligns perfectly with the ancient Chinese clock ...

J K Dadoo writes that ancient India, through trade, religion and knowledge networks, shaped global civilisation as the world’s central intellectual and philosophical power ...

Mars changed from a blue world with water to a red desert because its atmosphere escaped into space over billions of years.

A mysterious cosmic scar reveals two massive stars that passed near our solar system millions of years ago, energizing nearby gas and leaving traces visible to astronomers.

The ancient Greeks we admire today regarded these seven men as the wisest of their time. They attributed to them not only the ...

The discovery of a hidden supermassive black hole inside an ancient galaxy suggests that some of our universe's most extreme objects could be invisible unless observed in infrared wavelengths, James ...

Archaeological evidence shows that the 12 astronomical signs at one point entered China, a journey that would eventually ...

Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) and elsewhere report the discovery of a new brown ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is making its closest approach to Earth on Dec. 19. Learn about the 'reconnaissance mission' ...